American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 136
- Number 7
- July 1979
Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages887–894Psychologists are increasingly interested in the life cycle as the unit for study and in such questions as whether adult development, like child development, is to be perceived as a succession of stages. A stage theory of adult life seems oversimplified ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.887Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages895–900Pseudodementia is the syndrome in which dementia is mimicked or caricatured by functional psychiatric disorders. The author describes 10 patients with pseudodementia and compares its clinical features with those of true dementia. The syndrome occurred in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.895Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages901–905To obtain "folk" explanations of specific cases of mental illness the authors interviewed 35 baa(insane) Laotian individuals and their relatives and neighbors. They obtained 54 explanations; 15 focused on supernatural causes, 15 on physical causes, 14 on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.901Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages906–910The authors describe the day-to-day functioning and outcome of an 8- session, active, crisis-oriented outpatient psychotherapy group. Symptoms of anxiety and depression improved significantly in participants of the crisis group; these changes were even ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.906Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages911–913The author reviewed data from five studies and found that depressed patients with a history of depression in a parent or child have more sibships containing depression than depressed patients without this family history. Thus, there is a clustering of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.911Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages914–917The authors studied basal HGH levels and HGH response to insulin- induced hypoglycemia in 12 schizophrenic patients who had been treated with 200--450 mg/day of chlorpromazine for 6 months to 4 years compared with 12 schizophrenic patients who had ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.914Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages918–922Although many scales to measure tardive dyskinesia have been developed, none has been widely accepted. The authors used the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) to evaluate a group of 293 inpatients who had been given a primary or secondary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.918Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages923–926A district branch survey on attitudes toward obligatory continuing medical education (CME) and mandatory recertification indicated that most respondents approved the concept of lifelong learning. However, proposed methods of implementation of CME were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.923Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages927–931Researchers have found that state-dependent learning is associated with the administration of a wide variety of drugs. Recent data suggest that similar phenomena may occur secondary to endogenous changes in neuroregulatory substances. The authors point ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.927Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages932–936As medicine and nursing have become increasingly specialized, the need for additional training for the graduate nurse has become more evident. One way in which nursing educators have dealth with this problem is through the establishment of general nursing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.932Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages937–939The authors measured copper levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of 8 schizophrenic subjects and 6 controls. The schizophrenic subjects had significantly lower CSF copper values than the controls, which is consistent with the hypothesis that there is reduced ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.937Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages940–943To evaluate changes in the hallucinatory experience, the author analyzed the form and content of the hallucinations of 10 schizophrenic patients during two phases of their illness, the acute phase and remission. In both test periods the patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.940Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages944–947The author used a scale that emphasizes objective behavioral signs to evaluate affective flattening and to rate affect in 69 patients suffering from schizophrenia (N = 30), mania (N = 19), and depression (N = 20). Raters were blind to the patient's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.944Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages948–952The author studied the interactions between functioning, stress, and psychological deficit, variables considered essential to the schizophrenic patient's adjustment in the community. The results indicate that comprehensive measurement of functioning and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.948Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages955–958The authors compared 48 adult psychiatric patients (27 men and 21 women) who had been hyperactive as children with two groups of patients who had not. Both comparison groups were matched for age and sex and the second was also matched for economic status. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.955Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages959–962The author suggests that the frequency and severity of tardive dyskinesia in patients treated with neuroleptic drugs requires that informed consent be obtained from all patients receiving such treatment. The three basic conditions for obtaining informed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.959Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages963–966There have been many reports of probable lithium-induced organic brain syndromes occurring when serum lithium levels are within or close to the therapeutic range. The authors report on five patients who developed clinical syndromes suggestive of severe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.963Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages967–969The authors describe their experience with the implementation of a systematic evaluation of child psychiatry fellows and adult psychiatry residents rotating through a child psychiatry program. They found that the semiannual evaluations not only defined ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.7.967Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages970–972The authors describe a fatal episode of intestinal dilatation associated with chlorpromazine therapy. A total of 26 similar cases associated with phenothiazine or tricyclic antidepressant therapy, including 9 fatalities, has been reported in the ...
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